Feld Thoughts

MAY 9, 2011

Make it simple – eliminate capital gains if an individual (who is an accredited investor) invests equity (i.e. risk of 100% loss of investment) in a private company with less than 100 employees. Customer : The federal government is an enormous consumer of products and services.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

You can purchase bitcoins electronically and then use them to make payments and purchase products or services from companies accepting the currency, and the number of these companies continues to increase steadily. So what’s the appeal of paying your employees using this form of cryptocurrency? dollar-based compensation.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 4, 2021

They make money off of equity and stock option gains, as well as investment partnership interests that are taxed at lower capital gains rates. Many companies found that their employees worked just as productively at home—especially for those who had any childcare needs taken care of—and they’re happier not having a commute.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

These R&D investments matter because they enhance productivity, which enables the formation of new (and often higher-wage) jobs. Productivity enhancements can also help reduce income inequality. For every 1% increase in productivity, wages for low-skilled workers rise at roughly double the rate of those for high-skilled workers.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

We’re still caught in the “post recession bounce” : What’s happening is that the angel & VC community is still feeling good from having bounced back from the nadir of the famous “ RIP Good Times ” funk that we felt in 2008. We took $2.3 Sound familiar? The housing market is not recovered : Sales in existing homes in the US fell 27.2%

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

There was what seemed like an endless stream of bombshell announcements for four months: Alphabet’s Waymo unit filed a lawsuit against Uber claiming that a former Waymo employee, Anthony Levandowski, stole secrets related to autonomous vehicle technology. They got worse. Unfortunately, she did it while being female.

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